ScotLand Futures and the Need for Land Justice

That the Parliament welcomes the publication of the Scottish Land Commission’s ScotLand Futures report, What We Heard: A national call for change; understands that the report drew on over 1,200 open-text responses and submissions from across Scottish society including individuals, communities, landowners, farmers, tenants and civic organisations; notes that the findings of the report show that 96% of respondents believed that Scotland needs changes in land ownership and land concentration, and that a quarter said control over Scottish land was in the hands of too few people; believes that the process of land reform in Scotland must go further in order to build community wealth, strengthen community cohesion and empower community democracy, and calls on the Scottish Government to work collaboratively with all parties and interests to deliver land reform and land justice.